“Organizations today face increasing pressure to become more agile and economically efficient in order to grow, compete and survive,” said Gerald Pfeifer, SUSE Vice President of Products and Technology Programs. “They must leverage digital assets and information to fuel their progress. SUSE Enterprise Storage enables that as an affordable, easy-to-manage enterprise storage solution that harnesses open source innovation without expensive proprietary hardware.”

Ritu Jyoti, IDC Program Vice President, Systems Infrastructure Research Portfolio, said, “SUSE’s engineering investment to make SUSE Enterprise Storage easier to use has produced one of the industry’s easiest to manage Ceph distributions. The inclusion of openATTIC, which is quickly becoming a norm for the Ceph distribution as Ceph Manager Dashboard, plays a large part in the prominence of SUSE Enterprise Storage as an enterprise consumable solution.”

Production support for CIFS/Samba for Ceph is also included, further expanding SUSE Enterprise Storage’s ability to service non-Linux environments, particularly Windows. Version 5.5 has industry-first support for heterogeneous Ceph deployments (non-SUSE RBD and CephFS clients), enhanced security with embedded support of Linux kernel security module AppArmor, and the ability for the system to notify customers of events that are pre-determined and configured by the user. Documentation has been translated into additional languages reflecting SUSE’s growing global market.